Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

 SH> What I did a few years ago was get her used to using VLC
MK> Excellent idea.  I forgot about VLC but did use it on the
MK> commandline on a dual 933MHz p3 machine with a Matrox g200 card.  I

  That's why I liked it.  You could use it with a GUI interface or launch from
a commandline.

MK> think that must have been at least 15 years ago or so.  That was a
MK> great machine although not exactly meant for low power enviroments.

  VLC is my goto app on any operating system. :)

Shawn
... A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
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